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How to Improve Accounting & Finance with Business Intelligence
Building a business relies on more than a product and a can-do attitude. Establishing a finance team that can be proactive with the health of your...
Sonar Features (2)
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Sonar’s Status Page
At Sonar, we created software with the intention of improving the operational efficiency of your Internet Service Provider business. With so many...
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Network Monetization & Market Expansion
Whether you’re a large or small Internet Service Provider, your company’s underlying goal is to grow. While expanding into new markets can be an...
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DHCP Delivery
For a long time, Sonar has handled DHCP and option 82 requests for large networks using the Sonar DHCP Batcher. Now, this functionality has been...
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Scale Confidently with Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service
Remember the good old days when software was deployed on physical servers and then tucked away in a cabinet or data center? More often than not tens,...
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How to Leverage Sonar’s Multi-Tenancy to Grow Your Business
There’s never been a greater need for software that can support multiple brands and multiple entities than there is in the current ISP market space....
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Transforming Data into Business Insights with Sonar’s Business Intelligence Reporting
Financial health is the cornerstone for an Internet Service Providers’ capacity to deliver a quality customer experience, remain competitive, and...
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Performance Improvements
Have you ever read the release notes for a new piece of software or app? It’s very common that, amongst the specific changes and improvements, that...
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Cloud Security vs. On-Premise: Which is right for your ISP?
Cybersecurity is becoming a daily battle for businesses and customers alike. While Customers will run virus scans, avoid suspicious links and use...
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How to Transform Your Field Operations with a Field Tech Mobile App
With the rapid advancement in technology comes a shorter depreciation period. Combining this with an ever-growing population means that natural...
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Why Customer Portals are the Future of Customer Satisfaction
If you’ve ever subscribed to a provider offering Software-as-a-Service, you’ve likely had the pleasure (or displeasure, depending) of using a...
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Scaling Timeseries Data
Scaling timeseries data is a painful endeavor, and one we’ve had to deal with since the early days of Sonar. In this post, I’ll walk you through some...
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How to Protect Your Data When an Employee Leaves
Although there is significant debate on how frequently individuals change careers, due to the opacity of what actually constitutes a “career change”,...
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Support Process
In today’s highly competitive environment, with multiple companies having near identical offerings, it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd;...
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Solving the Data Puzzle, How ISPs Can Leverage Data to Increase ARPU
One of the most popular puzzles of the ’70s was the Rubik’s Cube. In 1974 the Rubik’s Cube was invented by Ernő Rubik and would go on to live in...
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Security & Advantages of Sonar in the Cloud
Cloud-based solutions, cloud-based security, and Software as a Service (Saas) are all terms that grow increasingly more common and are quickly...
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Provisioning Customers & Devices in Sonar
Whether you’re a new Internet Service Provider or you’ve been serving customers for some time but want details about exactly what Sonar does for your...
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Building a Device Mapper
So, you want to contribute a device mapper to the Sonar poller. Great! Here’s a walk through on how to get started. First, you’ll need a copy of the...
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Pulse, Polling, and PHP
We recently released a new network poller for Sonar. Here’s some background on how it works! Network monitoring is a necessary part of running any...
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Being Cloud Native
Learn why Sonar runs in the cloud, and why we don’t (and can’t) offer the ability for it to be run locally, and why this is a good thing for you....
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Consuming the Sonar API
In the first three articles in this series, I walked you through how to use the API using GraphiQL, a web based tool included in Sonar. Now let’s...
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Mutations in the Sonar API
In GraphQL, a mutation is something that changes data. Whether you’re creating, updating, or deleting, running a mutation will always cause data to...